News archive from 22 October 2014

International Development Secretary Justine Greening has joined British troops heading to Sierra Leone to help with the fight against Ebola.
The minister flew from RAF Brize Norton yesterday with around 100 soldiers from the Royal Army Medical Corps....

CHILDREN whose parents give them alternatives to cow's milk are twice as likely to suffer vitamin D deficiency, according to new research.
A Canadian study of almost 3,000 children aged between one and six years old discovered that those drinking...

A DRINK driver who was involved in a high speed police pursuit through Leeds has been jailed - ten years after committing the offence.
Anthony Davis, 51, was handed a seven month sentence, three days short of the tenth anniversary of the incident in...

Allowing UK cities to make their own decisions on tax and spending could boost economic growth by £79bn a year by 2030, a year-long study has concluded. The amount equates to boosting current UK productivity by 5%, said the RSA City Growth Commission,...

Scottish retailers suffered their worst month on record in September as uncertainty caused by the independence referendum meant sales plunged 2.9 per cent year-on-year.
Figures published today by the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG show...

THE SNP leadership suffered a blow yesterday to its flagship post-referendum demand for full control over tax policy, as the commission tasked with delivering new Holyrood powers was warned the plan would leave a £5 billion black hole in Scotland's...

THE fashion world has lost a favourite son with the death of designer Oscar de la Renta at the age of 82.
The Dominican-born designer died at his home in Connecticut after a decade-long battle with cancer.
His elegant, feminine creations have been...

ONE of Britain's most threatened birds of prey could have a secure future thanks to a new project launched by the RSPB.
Scotland hosts most of the UK breeding population of hen ­harriers, mostly on Orkney, the Hebrides and parts of the West Coast.
The...

Britain should lead the campaign for an international ban on development of autonomous “killer robots” but existing armed drone technology poses no “convincing ethical” problems, according to a policy commission headed by a former director of GCHQ....

A DRINK driver who was involved in a high speed police pursuit has been jailed...TEN years after committing the offence.
Anthony Davis, 51, was handed a seven month sentence, three days short of the tenth anniversary of the incident in Leeds.
A court...

WHITBREAD is to trial its Premier Inn model in Germany, as the leisure group revealed yesterday that its hotels arm and Costa coffee chain both went "from strength to strength" in a robust first-half trading performance.
Whitbread, which...

NEXT year's general election, if it wasn't challenging enough for David Cameron already on the Ukip front, has arguably just got tougher. Britain's worsening public finances in the first six months of the current tax year mean Chancellor George...

George Osborne has suffered a fresh blow after the six-year squeeze on earnings growth was blamed for the latest official figures showing a widening hole in the public finances.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) yesterday showed...

“Has an injury ever delayed play by so long in a televised Saturday lunchtime game that the final whistle came after 3pm, so the broadcasters were unable to show the conclusion of the match because of the black-out laws?” asks Ian Burnett.
Well we...

Norwich’s 1-1 draw with Leeds at Carrow Road was overshadowed by a racism row involving striker Cameron Jerome and visiting defender Giuseppe Bellusci.
Referee Mark Clattenburg halted the game midway through the first half after receiving a complaint...